Chen Li: 60-70% of AI use cases do not need frontier models
Chen Li · Jeffrey Katzenberg's $2.8 Billion Fund · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Dec 29, 2025 · at 38:20
WndrCo co-founder Chen Li discusses AI evaluation and argues that product workflow and last-mile context matter more than continually upgrading to frontier models.
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“I don't think, I don't know, is it 60, 70% of those use cases actually require frontier models? I think you can, again, freeze the model, and it's the ingenuity, the last mile that, that's actually what's going to create a magical product.”
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